The 5th work (CD 1) for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra; text by John Addington Symonds; the 5th work (CD 2) arranged from keyboard pieces of Byrd, Bull and Farnaby; movements of the final work each taken from a dramatic work: The Gordian knot untied, The virtuous wife, King Arthur's fairest isle, Abddelazer, Dido and Aeneas, and King Arthur, respectively.

Title from container.

Some tracks previously released: Pye CCT 31000 (Bax, Butterworth), CCL 30301 (Purcell); HMV C3894 (Forgotten rite), DB9651-2 (Mai-Dun), C3826-7 (These things shall be), C3819 (Fantasia on Greensleeves), C3507-8 (Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis), BLP 1065 (Elizabethan suite); the Elgar works previously unreleased.

Compact discs.

Program notes by Michael Kennedy in English and text of the Ireland choral work (10 p. : ill.) inserted in container.

Wilma Cozart, Harold Lawrence (Pye recordings), Lawrance Collingwood (HMV recordings, CD 1), or Alan Melville (HMV recording, CD 2), producers ; Robert Fine (Pye recordings), Arthur Clarke (HMV recordings, CD 1), or Robert Beckett (HMV recording, CD 2), engineers.

Recorded in Houldsworth Hall, Manchester (June 6, 1946-May 1, 1948); the Free Trade Hall, Manchester (June 21-21, 1946-June 22, 1956); in Kingsway Hall, London (May 30, 1947); and in No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London (May 31, 1949).

Sung in English (CD 1, 5th work).

The Barbirolli edition

The garden of Fand / Arnold Bax (15:26)

A Shropshire lad / George Butterworth (10:46)

The forgotten rite (8:39) ; Mai-Dun (12:08) ; These things shall be (16:11) / John Ireland

Fantasia on Greensleeves (4:27) ; Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis (16:11) / Ralph Vaughan Williams

Enigma variations : op. 36 (26:16) ; Bavarian dance no. 2 : Lullaby (3:38) / Edward Elgar

An Elizabethan suite / arr. John Barbirolli (11:27)

Suite for strings / Purcell ; arr. John Barbirolli (13:51).

Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 > Musical settings.

Folk songs, English > England > Instrumental settings.

Hallé Orchestra.

Barbirolli Society.